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period still has not returned

I have been feeding my daughter formula from almost the beginning and now she is 3.5 months and I still don't have a period. has anyone else waited this long for a period? my doctor said it's ok, but I still think it's way too long!

I had the same issue, my dr said that you dont start getting a period after you have a baby for at least 3 months. I believe it took mine 5 months to get back on course which I thought was way crazy but my dr said I was fine.

Answer by
Anonymous
at 9:00 AM on Dec. 15, 2009

When I had my first child I had waited 6 months for my period to come back, I had been bottle feeding as well so I went to my gyno to find out what was going on. It seems that the one and only time that I had gotten intimate with my ex I wound up pregnant again. My period had not come back at all during the time before I got pregnant the second time. After I gave birth to my second child, my period is regular and lasts from 3 to 4 days.